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Democrats prove to be almost as good as Republicans…

… at licking the collective tuchus of their employers.

Witness the slow disintegration of the minimum wage bill in Congress.

This surgery performed by people who do not live on a minimum wage, do not have to worry about health care, and in fact, as long as they do what they’re paid to do, don’t have to worry about much of…

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Between The Acts At The Opera

Who remembers Willie and Eugene Howard? They don’t have a page in Wikipedia, or their own page on the web. They’re mentioned briefly in the IMDB and related sources for their 1926 film short “Between The Acts At The Opera,” which you won’t find on Youtube.

Two of the most popular vaudeville comedians, The Howard Brothers laid ‘em in the aisles back in the day – and by that I mean the turn of…

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Hallucinatory video mashup

Charlie Parker and his band, in the early 50′s, play with Miles Davis and his crew in 1969. And they play in the same (ever-so-slightly pitch corrected) key.

This uses a beta version of Mixmonsta; you need the very latest version of FlashPlayer installed, and I found (on my Mac) that it won’t play in Netscape, but plays beautifully in Safari. We here at Steinski World HQ take no…

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Deconstructing a “live news” broadcast

Take a look at this clip of Mad Dog Cheney’s statement on Democratic Sen. Harry Reid, who called the Iraq war “already lost.”

Let’s examine this for a moment. A few choices were made here by the staff of MSNBC – not exactly the bastion of intelligent and accurate news, but better than Fox, if only barely.

First, they reported it on camera, because, well, it’s live footage, and that’s what…

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I have no idea if this is actually true, but it’s an appealing hypothesis

People who become liberals and and those who become conservatives exhibit marked psychological differences from a young age, according to Psychology Today.

“Most people are surprised to learn that there are real, stable differences in personality between conservatives and liberals -not just different views or values, but underlying differences in temperament.”…

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Just in case you thought Bush and Gonzales had stopped at firing capable attorneys and replacing them with political hacks

A story in Harper’s details the Republican thug program to silence any pesky criticism about things like torture, treason by Administration officials, corruption, and other everyday activities by the neocon scum.

In the summer of 2005, Alberto Gonzales paid a visit to British Attorney General Peter Goldsmith. A British civil servant who attended told me “it was quite amazing really….

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Let us celebrate

It’s been exactly a year since Steven Colbert spoke at the White House Correspndent’s Association Dinner and gave the finger brilliantly and hilariously to Bush and the fawning press hacks gathered to share a few drinks, some prime rib, and a good insider laugh.

They got a bit more than they bargained for.

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It’s Ruth Draper. Who?

So there we were; it was New York City in 1983, and you wouldn’t believe the things that seemed new and radical at the time.

For instance, there was a new show opening on Broadway – a one-woman performance by this actress Whoopi Goldberg. And get this: she was black! Goldberg! Ha ha! And she had these awesome dreads! And Mike Nichols was directing, and she did all these cool…

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Upcoming Moyers special

Bill Moyers produced a special on the press’s role in the war on Iraq.

It airs April 25 on PBS in the US.

It goes into stomach-turning detail about the piss-poor excuse for journalism the US currently endures.

Needless to say, the slimiest offenders – broadcast and cable TV “pundits” – are still in there pitching Republican bs at the public at every opportunity.

And, sadly, due to…

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Before and after

“…it was handled incompetently. The communication was atrocious. It was inconsistent. It’s generous to say that there were misstatements. That’s a generous statement. And I believe you ought to suffer the consequences that these others have suffered. And I believe that the best way to put this behind us is your resignation.”

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla…

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